The discussion revolves around integrating Smyte’s spam protection system with Discourse, initiated by justin_gordon, who is collaborating with Pete Hunt. justin_gordon mentions a recurring spam issue on one of his sites and shares documentation links for Smyte’s API. He plans to open-source the integration and seeks advice on adding triggers. sam suggests forking the Akismet plugin, but codinghorror clarifies that Akismet isn’t currently in use. justin_gordon confirms they are using the default Docker container and received an upgrade message. riking provides installation instructions, and justin_gordon shares a screenshot from talksurf.com showing spam activity. codinghorror emphasizes the need to integrate Akismet, noting it handles similar tasks. riking identifies the issue as a notorious spammer, and justin_gordon concludes by praising Akismet and thanking contributors.
I’m working with Smyte and Pete Hunt on integrating their spam protection system with discourse. One of my sites keeps getting the same darn spammer over and over again. Time to fix this!
I’ll put this up on github for a PR, if that’s the right way to add this.
Thanks,
Justin
PS: I absolutely love discourse at http://forum.railsonmaui.com. The only issue is that it’s made me a bit lazy about creating full length blog articles!
Is there any worth in figuring out how the same spambot keeps hitting my website? It would be great if there’s somethin discourse to not even require a plugin to block this.
